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Berlin - Paris, Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld

A Documentary film. Brunhilde Pomsel always described herself as just being a side-line figure and not at all interested in politics. Aged 105, Pomsel used to work as secretary, stenographer and typist for the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Pomsel’s life mirrors the major historical ruptures of the 20th century and German life thereafter. The film forces viewers to ask themselves what they would have done and whether they would have sacrificed any possible moral principles in order to advance their own careers.

Director : Christian Krönes, Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer, Florian Weigensamer

Production Year : 2016

Duration : 113

Language : English, German

A Blonde Province - Poland and Nazi Racial Obsession

Without prior declaration of war the German army marched on 1 September 1939 in Poland. The attack on Poland, not only marks the beginning of World War II, but also to a large-scale ethnic cleansing. In the course of which thousands of Jews and Christians were driven from their homes, deported and killed. They had to make room for an experiment of racism. In the west of Poland, the Nazis a "blonde provincial planning" should grow up settling ethnic German, the offspring of a Germanic master race.

Director : Jacek Kubiak, Klaus Salge

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 52

Language : German

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סרט עלילתי באורך מלא.

Director : William Cameron Menzies

Production Year : 1944

Duration : 75

Language : English

Swastika

A documentary. The Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.This documentary shows also the private face of Hitler through Eva Braun's home movies, contrasted with newsreels from the Nazi era to present an extraordinary pictorial record of the regime.

Director : Philippe Mora

Production Year : 1973

Duration : 113

Language : English

Films of Hate - The Nazi Cinema in the War Against the Jews, part 2

The TV series "The films of hatred" is not another series on the history of the Holocaust, but an event of interdisciplinary communications. The event was planned by experts on history, sociology, psychology, communications, film and propaganda, and deals with the stereotype of the Jew in film and the influence of media on the masses in Nazi Germany that led to murder Jews in terrible ways by their atrocity. Dr. Baruch Gitlis, international expert on the Nazi propaganda film, edited chapters of the series in a dynamic and direct, easy to grasp and understand, causing a deep discussion on the topic. The...

Director : Baruj Gitlis

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 57

Language : German, Spanish

A Day in October

During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family. English dialogue and U.S. actors top-cast

Director : Kenneth Madsen

Production Year : 1991

Duration : 99

Language : Danish, English

Hitler: A Balance - The Blackmailer

Third episode in a six-part series that surveys the life and figure of Hitler comprehensively. Includes many interviews and also original excerpts that have not been seen until today. This episode, Der Erpresser, deals with the way in which Hitler conducted his foreign policy - the period of threats, the extortion, and the repression.

Director : Maurice Philip Remy, Guido Knopp

Production Year : 1995

Duration : 50

Language : German

1938 - The Year of Decision

This film documents the intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy against the backdrop of the crucial events of 1938, making total war imminent, and reaching a fever pitch with “the Night of Broken Glass”. The film makes use of archival footage, still photographs, and Hebrew and English narration.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 5

Language : Musical Score

Anti-semitism

This short documentary film chronicles anti-semitism, from the dawn of Christianity through the Middle Ages, into Modernity, culminating in the unprecedented Nazi demand for the extermination of the Jews.

Director : ראובן הקר

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 9

Language : English, Hebrew

Riefenstahl

A documentary. Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century as an artist and a Nazi propagandist. Her films "Triumph of the will" and "Olympiatand for perfectly staged body worship and the celebration of the superior and victorious. At the same time, these images project contempt for the imperfect and weak. Riefenstahl's aesthetics are more present than ever today - but is that also true for their implied message? The film examines this question using documents from Riefenstahl's estate, including private films, photos, recordings and letters. It uncovers fragments of...

Director : Andres Veiel

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 115

Language : English, German

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